LEADER 04116nam 2200865 a 450 001 9910779473703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89711-3 010 $a0-8122-0719-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207194 035 $a(CKB)2550000000707653 035 $a(OCoLC)833582420 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642208 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000810718 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11427887 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000810718 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10833076 035 $a(PQKB)10346936 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19912 035 $a(DE-B1597)449477 035 $a(OCoLC)979748812 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207194 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441873 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642208 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420961 035 $a(OCoLC)842283965 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441873 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000707653 100 $a19980714d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCovert operations$b[electronic resource] $ethe medieval uses of secrecy /$fKarma Lochrie 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (299 p.) 225 0 $aThe Middle Ages Series 225 0$aMiddle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2174-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-286) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction, or Dark Matter -- $t1. Tongues Untied: Confession and Its Secrets -- $t2. Tongues Wagging: Gossip, Women, and Indiscreet Secrets -- $t3. Men's Ways of Knowing: The Secret of Secrets and the Secrets of Women -- $t4. Covert Women and Their Mysteries -- $t5. Sodomy and Other Female Perversions -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic BookIn Covert Operations, Karma Lochrie brings the categories and cultural meanings of secrecy in the Middle Ages out into the open. Isolating five broad areas?confession, women's gossip, medieval science and medicine, marriage and the law, and sodomitic discourse?Lochrie examines various types of secrecy and the literary texts in which they are played out. She reads texts as central to Middle English studies as the "Parson's Tale," the "Miller's Tale," the Secretum Secretorum, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as well as a broad range of less familiar works, including a gynecological treatise and a little-known fifteenth-century parody in which gossip and confession become one. As she does so she reveals a great deal about the medieval past?and perhaps just as much about the early development of the concealments that shape the present day. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aWomen$zEngland$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 500-1500 606 $aMarriage customs and rites, Medieval 606 $aScience, Medieval, in literature 606 $aLaw, Medieval, in literature 606 $aMarriage in literature 606 $aSecrecy in literature 606 $aGossip in literature 606 $aSodomy in literature 607 $aEngland$xSocial conditions$y1066-1485 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xHistory 615 0$aMarriage customs and rites, Medieval. 615 0$aScience, Medieval, in literature. 615 0$aLaw, Medieval, in literature. 615 0$aMarriage in literature. 615 0$aSecrecy in literature. 615 0$aGossip in literature. 615 0$aSodomy in literature. 676 $a820.9/001 700 $aLochrie$b Karma$01474401 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779473703321 996 $aCovert operations$93712082 997 $aUNINA